Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2015
General availability: Azure Batch
Azure Batch makes it easy to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing workloads in Azure.
Azure Site Recovery available in Brazil South
Customers can now use Azure Site Recovery to protect and recover their mission critical workloads in the Brazil South region.
General availability: Azure Site Recovery adds disaster recovery and migration of VMware and physical machines
Disaster recovery and migration of VMware and physical machines to Azure with Azure Site Recovery is generally available.
Azure Cosmos DB: Order By support and .NET SDK 1.2.0
The latest Azure Cosmos DB update includes support for sorting (Order By) with numbers and strings and string range queries.
Azure preview portal Browse improvements
You can refresh the list of resources available from Browse, view the full list of recent resources you've used, and create new resources by using the Add command.
Navigation improvements to the Azure preview portal
We've introduced a new navigation bar that includes breadcrumbs, quick access to start customizing, and the user menu that shows which directory you've signed in to.
Automation: Graphical authoring adds runbook input as data source
Azure Automation adds runbook input parameters as a data source for configuring activity input parameter values.
Preview: Azure SQL Database Index Advisor
Use Azure SQL Database Index Advisor to improve your database performance.
Now available: Media Encoder Premium for Azure Media Services
Media Encoder Premium for Azure Media Services offers new and advanced encoding capabilities, including support for MXF and DVCPRO formats, in addition to 4K AVC, multilanguage audio, closed captioning, deinterlacing, and color conversion.
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